GILGIT: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chief and former Gilgit-Baltistan chief minister Khalid Khurshid on Tuesday was sentenced to 34 years by an anti-terrorism court docket (ATC) for making threatening remarks towards safety companies and officers.
The ATC additionally slapped a positive of Rs600,000 on the previous CM whereas whereas directing the inspector normal of police to arrest and switch the perpetrator to the jail.
Moreover, the court docket additionally directed the Nationwide Database and Registration Authority (Nadra) director normal to dam the politician’s nationwide id card (NIC).
Khurshid was booked for threatening safety companies, GB’s chief secretary, and chief election commissioner with critical penalties throughout a PTI energy present on Could 26, 2024.
A primary data report (FIR) was lodged towards the PTI chief at GB’s Metropolis Police Station beneath the Anti-Terrorism Act (ATA).
Nevertheless, the previous chief government remained an absconder and was absent from case proceedings.
Elected to the workplace in 2020, Khurshid was disqualified by GB’s Chief Court docket in July 2023 for holding a faux diploma beneath Articles 62 and 63 of the Structure of Pakistan.
The ex-CM had connected a faux diploma from the College of London in his nomination papers, after which the Larger Schooling Commissioner (HEC) formally requested the varsity to confirm his diploma, which was declared as “faux” in an official response by the establishment.
The politician had joined the PTI in 2018 and was elevated to the place of Diamer-Astore’s divisional president.
Lately, Khurshid, as per The Information, was booked in a number of circumstances with regard to the celebration’s protest at Islamabad’s D-Chowk in October.